CVE-2023-2489 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2023 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Trumani	Stop Spammers

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:trumani:stop_spammers:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dcbe3334-357a-4744-b50c-309d10cca30d

History

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-06-05T13:38:59.037Z

Updated: 2025-01-08T17:03:38.216Z

Reserved: 2023-05-03T08:30:23.311Z

Link: CVE-2023-2489

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:26:09.335Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-06-05T14:15:10.243

Modified: 2025-01-08T17:15:11.450

Link: CVE-2023-2489

Redhat

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